Okay. Think about this. Without knowing where the tower is and what provider he is using we have NO IDEA if it has 3G or not. I know from personal experience that all the new towers in my area have 3G do you have any personal experience of a brand new tower that doesn't?
"So what does it matter whether it was written by the community or started as a binary blob and got open-sourced by the manufacturer?" To the end user none at all. What it does mean is that the heavy lifting was all done buy the hardware company. No really big money savings from going FOSS are just bug fixes and maybe some small improvements to drivers for hardware that you don't sell anymore. I am all for FOSS drivers. What I am sick of is the "all they need to do is give us the specs" driver fantasy. Heck if AMD/ATI can deliver drivers that are FOSS or even closed source for now that match NVidia's they will have my business. What I really want to see from AMD/ATI is Linux support for their motherboard chip set that matches Windows. I would love to have an all AMD system running Linux.
Okay... My guess. This gentleman was using a computer at his university. He used Opera which has a built in bit-torrent client to download OpenOffice. That was probably against the rules of the university. His workstation has been the university and he is now being investigated. Many universities have rules about what software you are allowed to use and how you are allowed to use their network. Bit-torrent is often used for pirated material. It is also often used for things like OpenOffice and Linux distros however it does make your system act as a server which is considered a security issue. I don't see what was so hard to understand.
I use Linux but I have little faith that we will every see FOSS 3d drivers that are written for free by the "community" So far there are zero modern 3D drivers that do not have a lot of manufacture support. I will bet that the FOSS ATI drivers with still have a lot of code from ATI.
Not cost effective. It takes time and money to release specs. They are not making money from those chips so it is illogical to put any effort in to releasing the specs.
Arsenic is a pretty common byproduct of mining because it is often found in the ore!
Arsenic is all natural and part of the environment. It just happens to be one of the toxic, nasty, all natural bits. In this case it is naturally occuring in the ground water. Hope they have some good artificial, man made, filtering systems around if they use that water.
"When did this become a Republican/Democrat issue? Maybe I'm showing my bias here but how in the hell is the "liberal" wing in Linux all about making money? Isn't that the domain of Republicans?" Yes you are showing your bias and what is worse you are contributing to what you say you hate.
Desktop Linux isn't making money, server Linux is. I doubt that Desktop Linux will ever make money but will instead allow a top to bottom Linux stack with companies making money on the server and embedded ends.
What gets me is the freedom part of Linux can never really be in danger. You have the source so you can port it to whatever machine you want. As long as people keep the right to load software on their PCs there is no real risk.
"the Sony marketing machine had already killed the Dreamcast)" A shame really. The Dreamcast was every bit as good as the PS2 and had better development tools. I think the ease of piracy did a lot to kill the Dreamcast.
"The law does not prohibit the copying of DVDs or CDs; it disallows the circumvention of anti-copying technologies like Macrovision et al.," So exactly how does one make a copy of a movie to their hard drive without circumventing De-CSS? Seems like the DMCA to me.
1. Voice dialing and Voice commands. Why not allow me to boost control other features of the phone by voice. 2. Play music and or other audio through a bluetooth headset. Not just through bluetooth headphones. I wish I could listen to my sprint TV through the blue tooth headset. 3. Not on AT&T 4. Hight speed access. 5. tethering by cable and bluetooth. 6. bluetooth syncing. 7. SDK. 8. Allow you to use it mass storage. 9. Allow you to use it as a display for your iPod Classic. 10. Support UWB USB. 11. Sync calander and notes with Google Calander and Notes. 12 Sync bookmarks with Google.
Yea it is pretty dumb but then I think wearing a breadboard is pretty dumb. But to be honest if I was going to try and get a bomb into an airport... 1. I would breadboard it. I would solder it and make sure the connections where good. I have had more wires come out breadboards than I can shake a stick at. 2. I sure wouldn't wear it on my shirt.
I would be extremely well groomed and wearing a suit and tie, maybe carrying a teddy bear with a bow on it. Just as if I was going to be a spy during the cold war I would join the republican party and the NRA.
Honestly I think she was trying to make a point. Pretty dumb over all.
Yes. You gang up 6 to one on someone just because they did or said something you don't like then yes you deserve to go to jail. BTW my uncle helped to liberate one of the Nazi death camps. So yea I really hate Nazis but a crime is a crime and getting a gang together to beat up one person is a crime.
"but most business application servers use less storage than you can get in an mp3 player)." Yes they do. I am migrating the our support call, issue tracking, and RMA data base to a new server. We take a good number of calls a year and have almost six years of data on the server. The dump file is only 16 megabytes. Most business data is still text and text just doesn't eat up that much space.
For home use doesn't and workstations does NAS make more sense than SAN? I am on a small network so we only use NAS for shared drives.
Microsoft on the side that isn't pure evil..... Head going to explode..... Just kidding but I can understand both sides of the issue. RnD is expensive. And then you have the companies that make nothing but law suits... That has got to be a good middle ground. I have to admit that I don't support software patents but a company deserves to make good money from their RnD. And no just being first to market isn't enough.
Well the man that designed the VW was named Porsche:) Yea the same one. The Porsche's from the 50s and 60s where built using the same suspension as the VWs but with better parts of course. The swing axles when you corner tend to jack up the rear of the car which tend to make the back end swing out. Add in a rear engine and you have a car that really likes to swap ends at high speeds. Even into the 80s 930s which had an IRS was known to be a real handful.
"Generally the U.N. is pretty good with standards (english for pilots)" That happened because after WWII the vast majority of air traffic was carried by US and UK airlines. "Lists (like ISO country codes)," Which involves no money.
The real "problem" with the Corvair was that early versions used a swing axle and that could get you into an over steer if you tried to take at turn at too high of a speed. The Porsche and VW line had the exact same if not worse since early VW and 356s used a tailing arm front suspension. Combine that with under inflated tires and they all could flip if you drove like a nut case. So Ralph Nader's fame is all based on a book that was a lie. GM switched to an IRS and away from the swing arm to improve the handling. VW didn't switch to an IRS on the beetle for many years.
I wish that the Press would start reporting facts and not trying to "educate" us.
Well I can only think that the size of the market or maybe they require different certification? My company does sell software in Canada. We just charge them the US price in dollars and let the customer deal with the exchange rate. Probably not the most convenient system for them but the market for us is very small and it does mean that we don't charge them any more then they would pay in the US. Maybe that is why the seem to like our product so much.
Just have to wonder why? I usually take a Scifi book of some kind or a magazine that I buy by the gate. Besides being offended by them keeping track of your reading material which I can understand why bother?
"Will Boeing take the reputation hit that, say, Ford took about the Pinto? Maybe not. " You know that you where never more likely to die in a Pinto from fire than any other car in it's class? That included Toyota, Datsun, and VW? Or that the Corvair of "Unsafe at any Speed" fame wasn't any more dangerous than a VW Beetle? Ford lost a law suit and did improve the safety of the Pinto as a result but most of the hype was just that. Hype.
Composites have been used in aircraft for years. Hundreds of planes of Rutan VariEze family have been built and flown by people in their garage going back to the 1970s. Many Lancairs and other light air craft have decades of experience with both Carbon Fiber and Fiberglass construction. Throw in all the sailplanes over the years and competition aerobatic aircraft like the Extra and I would say that there is a pretty good track record for civil aircraft.
Then put in all the military aircraft that have used composites like the AV-8B, B-2, FA-18 and I think you have a pretty good history to work from. Over all I am not all that worried about it. People freaked out when people did other really radical changed like make ships out of iron! I mean think about it iron doesn't float! There was a time when pilots thought that it was unsafe to fly an air plane with an enclosed cockpit because they couldn't feel the wind.
Yea I bet they are. I am about to retire a database server at my office that has finally gotten to slow. It is running Postgres 7 and is supporting about 30 clients. It gets hit pretty hard doing transactions and is now getting painfully slow. I probably could tune it a bit more but why bother it is way over due to be migrated to a new version of Linux and Postgres. Oh and the box it was running on? An old PII 450 with an IDE drive and 250 Megabytes of ram. The computer and hard drive have got to be close to 10 year old by now and it has been in constant use as a database server for at least 5 years.
If you are wondering why we have used such a old system for so long well. It was a test system to see if we could replace a very crash prone peer to peer database program with a new client server system that I wrote using java and postgres as the back end. We put it on on the Friday after thanksgiving 5+ years ago and it worked so well we have never taken it down:)
I wonder how it will run on Postgres 8.2 under CentOS 64 and a gig or more of ram?
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Okay. Think about this. Without knowing where the tower is and what provider he is using we have NO IDEA if it has 3G or not. I know from personal experience that all the new towers in my area have 3G do you have any personal experience of a brand new tower that doesn't?
"So what does it matter whether it was written by the community or started as a binary blob and got open-sourced by the manufacturer?"
To the end user none at all. What it does mean is that the heavy lifting was all done buy the hardware company. No really big money savings from going FOSS are just bug fixes and maybe some small improvements to drivers for hardware that you don't sell anymore.
I am all for FOSS drivers. What I am sick of is the "all they need to do is give us the specs" driver fantasy. Heck if AMD/ATI can deliver drivers that are FOSS or even closed source for now that match NVidia's they will have my business.
What I really want to see from AMD/ATI is Linux support for their motherboard chip set that matches Windows. I would love to have an all AMD system running Linux.
Okay...
My guess.
This gentleman was using a computer at his university. He used Opera which has a built in bit-torrent client to download OpenOffice. That was probably against the rules of the university. His workstation has been the university and he is now being investigated.
Many universities have rules about what software you are allowed to use and how you are allowed to use their network. Bit-torrent is often used for pirated material. It is also often used for things like OpenOffice and Linux distros however it does make your system act as a server which is considered a security issue.
I don't see what was so hard to understand.
I use Linux but I have little faith that we will every see FOSS 3d drivers that are written for free by the "community"
So far there are zero modern 3D drivers that do not have a lot of manufacture support.
I will bet that the FOSS ATI drivers with still have a lot of code from ATI.
Not cost effective.
It takes time and money to release specs. They are not making money from those chips so it is illogical to put any effort in to releasing the specs.
Arsenic is a pretty common byproduct of mining because it is often found in the ore!
Arsenic is all natural and part of the environment. It just happens to be one of the toxic, nasty, all natural bits. In this case it is naturally occuring in the ground water. Hope they have some good artificial, man made, filtering systems around if they use that water.
EA not supporting the Dreamcast did really hurt. I tend to forget that because I never buy sports games. I just don't like them so I don't buy them.
"When did this become a Republican/Democrat issue? Maybe I'm showing my bias here but how in the hell is the "liberal" wing in Linux all about making money? Isn't that the domain of Republicans?"
Yes you are showing your bias and what is worse you are contributing to what you say you hate.
Desktop Linux isn't making money, server Linux is. I doubt that Desktop Linux will ever make money but will instead allow a top to bottom Linux stack with companies making money on the server and embedded ends.
What gets me is the freedom part of Linux can never really be in danger. You have the source so you can port it to whatever machine you want. As long as people keep the right to load software on their PCs there is no real risk.
"the Sony marketing machine had already killed the Dreamcast)"
A shame really. The Dreamcast was every bit as good as the PS2 and had better development tools. I think the ease of piracy did a lot to kill the Dreamcast.
Export maybe move? Not likley. They will just have to replace it later. I just don't see it. I know that the new towers they add here are all 3g
Or maybe just putting the satellite dish on a tower.
Actually He is more likley to have 3G. Why would they install a new tower with old equipment?
"The law does not prohibit the copying of DVDs or CDs; it disallows the circumvention of anti-copying technologies like Macrovision et al.,"
So exactly how does one make a copy of a movie to their hard drive without circumventing De-CSS?
Seems like the DMCA to me.
1. Voice dialing and Voice commands. Why not allow me to boost control other features of the phone by voice.
2. Play music and or other audio through a bluetooth headset. Not just through bluetooth headphones. I wish I could listen to my sprint TV through the blue tooth headset.
3. Not on AT&T
4. Hight speed access.
5. tethering by cable and bluetooth.
6. bluetooth syncing.
7. SDK.
8. Allow you to use it mass storage.
9. Allow you to use it as a display for your iPod Classic.
10. Support UWB USB.
11. Sync calander and notes with Google Calander and Notes.
12 Sync bookmarks with Google.
Yea it is pretty dumb but then I think wearing a breadboard is pretty dumb.
But to be honest if I was going to try and get a bomb into an airport...
1. I would breadboard it. I would solder it and make sure the connections where good. I have had more wires come out breadboards than I can shake a stick at.
2. I sure wouldn't wear it on my shirt.
I would be extremely well groomed and wearing a suit and tie, maybe carrying a teddy bear with a bow on it.
Just as if I was going to be a spy during the cold war I would join the republican party and the NRA.
Honestly I think she was trying to make a point. Pretty dumb over all.
Yes.
You gang up 6 to one on someone just because they did or said something you don't like then yes you deserve to go to jail.
BTW my uncle helped to liberate one of the Nazi death camps. So yea I really hate Nazis but a crime is a crime and getting a gang together to beat up one person is a crime.
"but most business application servers use less storage than you can get in an mp3 player)."
Yes they do.
I am migrating the our support call, issue tracking, and RMA data base to a new server. We take a good number of calls a year and have almost six years of data on the server. The dump file is only 16 megabytes. Most business data is still text and text just doesn't eat up that much space.
For home use doesn't and workstations does NAS make more sense than SAN? I am on a small network so we only use NAS for shared drives.
Microsoft on the side that isn't pure evil..... Head going to explode.....
Just kidding but I can understand both sides of the issue. RnD is expensive. And then you have the companies that make nothing but law suits...
That has got to be a good middle ground. I have to admit that I don't support software patents but a company deserves to make good money from their RnD. And no just being first to market isn't enough.
Well the man that designed the VW was named Porsche:) Yea the same one. The Porsche's from the 50s and 60s where built using the same suspension as the VWs but with better parts of course.
The swing axles when you corner tend to jack up the rear of the car which tend to make the back end swing out. Add in a rear engine and you have a car that really likes to swap ends at high speeds.
Even into the 80s 930s which had an IRS was known to be a real handful.
"Generally the U.N. is pretty good with standards (english for pilots)"
That happened because after WWII the vast majority of air traffic was carried by US and UK airlines.
"Lists (like ISO country codes),"
Which involves no money.
The real "problem" with the Corvair was that early versions used a swing axle and that could get you into an over steer if you tried to take at turn at too high of a speed. The Porsche and VW line had the exact same if not worse since early VW and 356s used a tailing arm front suspension. Combine that with under inflated tires and they all could flip if you drove like a nut case. So Ralph Nader's fame is all based on a book that was a lie. GM switched to an IRS and away from the swing arm to improve the handling. VW didn't switch to an IRS on the beetle for many years.
I wish that the Press would start reporting facts and not trying to "educate" us.
Well I can only think that the size of the market or maybe they require different certification?
My company does sell software in Canada. We just charge them the US price in dollars and let the customer deal with the exchange rate. Probably not the most convenient system for them but the market for us is very small and it does mean that we don't charge them any more then they would pay in the US.
Maybe that is why the seem to like our product so much.
Just have to wonder why?
I usually take a Scifi book of some kind or a magazine that I buy by the gate.
Besides being offended by them keeping track of your reading material which I can understand why bother?
"Will Boeing take the reputation hit that, say, Ford took about the Pinto? Maybe not. "
You know that you where never more likely to die in a Pinto from fire than any other car in it's class? That included Toyota, Datsun, and VW? Or that the Corvair of "Unsafe at any Speed" fame wasn't any more dangerous than a VW Beetle?
Ford lost a law suit and did improve the safety of the Pinto as a result but most of the hype was just that. Hype.
Composites have been used in aircraft for years. Hundreds of planes of Rutan VariEze family have been built and flown by people in their garage going back to the 1970s. Many Lancairs and other light air craft have decades of experience with both Carbon Fiber and Fiberglass construction.
Throw in all the sailplanes over the years and competition aerobatic aircraft like the Extra and I would say that there is a pretty good track record for civil aircraft.
Then put in all the military aircraft that have used composites like the AV-8B, B-2, FA-18 and I think you have a pretty good history to work from.
Over all I am not all that worried about it. People freaked out when people did other really radical changed like make ships out of iron! I mean think about it iron doesn't float! There was a time when pilots thought that it was unsafe to fly an air plane with an enclosed cockpit because they couldn't feel the wind.
Yea I bet they are. I am about to retire a database server at my office that has finally gotten to slow. It is running Postgres 7 and is supporting about 30 clients. It gets hit pretty hard doing transactions and is now getting painfully slow. I probably could tune it a bit more but why bother it is way over due to be migrated to a new version of Linux and Postgres. Oh and the box it was running on? An old PII 450 with an IDE drive and 250 Megabytes of ram.
:)
The computer and hard drive have got to be close to 10 year old by now and it has been in constant use as a database server for at least 5 years.
If you are wondering why we have used such a old system for so long well. It was a test system to see if we could replace a very crash prone peer to peer database program with a new client server system that I wrote using java and postgres as the back end.
We put it on on the Friday after thanksgiving 5+ years ago and it worked so well we have never taken it down
I wonder how it will run on Postgres 8.2 under CentOS 64 and a gig or more of ram?